Opera has produced its latest State of the Mobile Web report and this time is concentrating on the football World Cup. This monthly report always offers some interesting insights into what we are doing with our phone. Here’s the highlights-
* As shown in Part 1 of the report, Opera Mini saw a slight decrease in unique users, pages viewed and data consumed in June 2010. In all, 59.4 million people used Opera Mini in June, 27.3 billion pages were served and 3.8 petabytes of operator data were compressed for Opera Mini users.
* As seen in Part 2 of the report, Ukraine, South Africa, the United States and Vietnam all rose one position on the list of top ten countries (number of Opera Mini users), while Nigeria dropped from position 5 to position 9 on that list.
* In Part 3 of this month’s report, we look at countries in Africa. The top 12 countries using Opera Mini in that region are South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Sudan, Libya, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Namibia, Mozambique and Mauritius.
* Some numbers: From June 2009 to June 2010, page views in the top 12 countries in Africa increased by 182%, unique users increased by 124%, and the amount of data transferred increased by 160%
* Growth rates in Africa: Sudan and Ghana lead the top 12 countries of the region in terms of page-view growth (4,645.6% and 916.5%, respectively). Sudan and Ghana also lead the top 12 countries of the region in growth of unique users (1,225.0% and 498.8%, respectively). Kenya leads the top 12 countries of the region in page views per user, with each user browsing 639 pages on average each month.
* Facebook, Google and YouTube all do well in Africa. Facebook is the top-ranked site in six of the twelve listed countries, and Google is ranked #1 in the remaining six countries.
* Nokia remains the most popular handset brand in Africa, followed by Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and LG.
* In Part 4 of this month’s report, we looked at the most popular sports sites visited by Opera Mini users around the world.
* In Part 5 of this month’s report, we held our very own Mobile Web World Cup. Chile scraped by Argentina to win the first ever Opera Mini Mobile Web World Cup.
